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No. 281,391. Patented July 17, 1883.

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ATTOR Y.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN NUHN AND FBEDERIOK KUEHNE, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

ELASTIC LABEL.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 281,391, dated July 17, 1883.

Application filed March 29, 1883.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, JOHN NUHN and FRED- ERICK KUEHNE, citizens of the United States, and residents of Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Elastic Labels, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to a new and improved label for bottles, jugs, &c.; and it consists of a strip of metal bent into circular form and possessing sufficient resiliency to closely fit the neck of the bottle or jug when placed upon the same, as will more fully hereinafter appear, due reference being had to the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 represents the blank of the label before the same has been bent into shape; Fig. 2, a view of the same when bent into shape, and Fig. 3 a view of the blank applied to the neck of a bottle.

Tags or labels have been applied to bottles in various waysfor example, by suspending the tag from the neck of the bottle by a chain or tape-and a tag having a rubber eye adapted to be slipped over the neck of the bottle has been employed; but these tags are inconvenieut when pouring out the contents of the bottle, and the tags are liable to be slipped around the bottle out of sight.

Our invention is designed to furnish a neat,

cheap, and durable tag or label that shall be free from these objections and that can be easily and readily applied to or detached from the bottle or jug; and to this end we construct (No model.)

possess sufficient resiliency to cause the bent blank to retain its circular form under all ordinary circumstances. The tag has the desired word, symbol, or ornament painted, printed, or otherwise affixed to the same, and may be readily attached to any ordinary-sized bottle, jug, or other similar vessel by simply forcing apart the ends of the metallic tag or label and slipping the same around the neck of the vessel, when the resiliency of the metal will in stantly cause the tag to firmly clasp the vessel and retain the same securely in place. The tag may also be forced over the top of the bottle onto the neck, if desired.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim is The bottle-label formed from the shield or I JOHN NUHN. FREDERICK KUEHNE.

\Vitnesses:

H. S. MITCHELL, XV; H. lVIITOHELL. 

